Sunday, January 2, 2011

Music and lyrics, A pretty new home, Burgers

1. The music at church alwaysinspires me. One of my favorites from today:

Blessed be Your name in the land that is plentiful,

Where Your streams of abundance flow.Blessed be Your name.And blessed be Your name when I'm found in the desert place.Though I walk through the wilderness,Blessed be your name.Every blessing You pour out, I'll turn back to praise.And when the darkness closes in, Lord still I will say...Blessed be the name of the Lord. Blessed be Your glorious name.Blessed be Your name when the sun's shining down on me,When the world's "all as it should be."Blessed be Your name.And blessed be Your name on the road marked with suffering.Though there's pain in the offering,Blessed be Your name.You give and take away, You give and take away.My heart will choose to say,Lord, blessed be Your name.

"The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside from a generous hand. But who gets excited by a mere penny?...It is dire poverty indeed when a man is so malnourished and fatigued that he won't stoop to pick up a penny. But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted with pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. It is that simple. what you see is what you get."